Draft:Battle of Wanna

The Battle of Wanna was a military conflict that took place in March 2004 at Azam Warsak, It occured close to the town of Wanna in South Waziristan Pakistan, between the Pakistan Army and militants of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda. There were roughly 500 foreign combatants from al-Qaeda hiding out in multiple fortified villages, which the Pakistan army troops and intelligence paramilitary soldiers had to grapple with. At the end of the conflict, 17 soldiers had died.

At the time, there were rumors that Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, was one of the fighters that the Pakistan Army had caught, but he had either escaped or had never been one of them. Following weeks of hostilities and skrimishes, the ISPR finally acknowledged that the person sheltering there was, in fact, Tohir Yoldeshev, the head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.